“Whether you have a pool in your backyard or not, you teach your kids to swim. Whether you have a firearm in your home or not, why not empower our youth with knowledge and education on how to stay safe? A lot of people see the NRA and assume the program is just designed to get kids interested in guns, but it’s the exact opposite — it’s telling them to stay away,” Todd said. “It’s all about safety, there’s no political agenda.” – Cheryl Todd in NRA’s Eddie Eagle gun-safety effort transcends politics [via azcentral.com]
Common sense has no place when discussing common sense about guns!
Or so I’ve repeatedly been told by implication by the mainstream media…
I’d be a bit concerned about ricochet coming back at the shooter on that one…
A hard call. Everyone has a right to his own quirks, so long as they don’t harm others. If we call in every little peculiarty we trend towards various version of Harrison Bergeron’s world. If nobody ever says anything, we wind up with, well, this. Most teens have a lot of built-in insecurity and desire to be noticed, and many have a strong need to be seen as different and therefore unique (both of which most of us past age 30 or so have mostly forotten out of mental self-protection) making it an especially hard call.
I suppose for me it would have to be when I believe the threat is credible, actionable and immenent. How would I call those lines, though? I honestly am not sure.
When he/she doesn’t pay the blackmail money I demanded.
It’s illegal to break the law. Until then, there is not much that we can do.
Any of you have kids? When you drop them off at school next, think what you would want them to do if they suspect something or see something? Do you want to be the parent outside the school waiting anxiously for his child to come out after something like this hapens, only to see your child isn’t coming out?
Look at the YouTube Videos of people getting beaten up, shot, run over, etc. People are quick to get their phone out to take a video but not to call 911 or to step in and do something. What a selfish society we now live in. Would I drop a dime, absolutely. I would be rather be wrong 9 times out of 10, but be right once and save someone’s life. Would I try and assist someone in trouble? Absolutely, how could I not? If you or a loved one were getting beaten or shot at, would you not want someone to help?
I saw this movie before. I think it was called the Minority Report.
Look, people always claim after an event that we should have done something. But really, unless we create an intelligence apparatus for spying on americans, there is usually no way before the event to connect the dots. Personally, I would rather take the chance the someone may be a time bomb rather than subjugate all people and create thousands of time bombs.
That is true. Kids all learn sooner or later tht no one really “wins” a fight, one just gets hurt less. By the time we start throwing real punches, those that can break something, we should have learned this lesson.
With age, some wisdom is gotten. The sooner the better.
This is just fuckin gross. What has this country come to? Anyone who supports this shit is a true nazi.